Martin Luther,
the Catholic priest,
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kindled a
firestorm when he told people
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there was a higher
authority than the pope.
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They wanted to
burn him at the stake
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so dangerous were his teachings.
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But his ideas were
too powerful to suppress,
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and the church
was forced to retreat.
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The result was a tsunami
of freedom and prosperity.
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This battle for personal
freedom still continues.
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Who talks for God today?
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Find out on the Carter Report.
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We welcome you today.
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The topic is "Who talks for God?
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Who speaks for God?"
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The pope? The church?
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A big committee?
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A hierarchy of
religious leaders?
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Who talks for God?
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This is a very,
very important subject.
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Who talks for God?
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Before I start though,
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my mind is full of
the events that took place
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in the last few days,
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here in beautiful Thousand Oaks.
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It's supposed to be
about the safest place
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in the United States of America.
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We've lived here
for many, many years.
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We're a part of Thousand Oaks.
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But just a few days
ago, we had a mass shooting.
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Those things don't happen
in Thousand Oaks, they do now.
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A mass shooting,
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lots of young people
gunned down in cold blood.
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Then the day after, we
had these tremendous fires.
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And then I've got a little
tickle in my throat today.
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And I'm not
saying this facetiously,
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it's because the
winds have changed.
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We're not having
the awful Santa Ana's,
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but the winds are blowing
off where the fires were.
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So I've got a little bit
of this in my lungs today.
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Around our house, so much smoke.
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We didn't evacuate,
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but we had our cars
loaded up ready to go,
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most of the street evacuated,
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but we're glad that we're alive.
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Now not today, but
next week, listen to this,
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I have a red hot topic for you.
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"God and guns in America."
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I say this to my dear
wonderful American friends,
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did you know that
in the Western world,
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in the advanced world,
the first world or world,
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America is the most dangerous
place on the face of the earth.
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Now people say...
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We've seen there's
been some fighting over,
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squabbles over in London
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and other places
in the United Kingdom.
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The chance of
you're being killed
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here in the
United States of America,
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per capita, per capita,
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is 50 times higher
than in the United Kingdom.
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So what is the problem?
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I'm going to talk
about the problem,
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which is not
obvious to all people.
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Is the problem the gun
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or is the problem the
person behind the gun?
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So that's going
to be the next topic.
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But the topic today
is Who Talks for God?
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Where do I go for answers?
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To my Church,
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to the leaders
of the world church,
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the pope, the
priest, the pastor, or where?
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What's my authority?
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Luther in one of his
debates was asked this question.
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"Do you think, Martin Luther,
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that you are the only
one that has the truth?"
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And Martin
Luther said these words.
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He said, "I'm free
to think as I choose.
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My mind is captive
to the Word of God.
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A simple Christian
armed with Scripture
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is greater than the
mightiest pope without it."
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That's the genius of the
great Protestant Reformation
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that made the
United States of America.
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"I am free to
think as I choose."
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If you're not free
to think as you choose,
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then you are a slave.
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He said, "I'm free
to think as I choose.
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A simple Christian
armed with Scripture
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is greater than the
mightiest pope without it."
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Don't forget it.
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Our authority is not the church,
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it is not the
priest, it is not the pope,
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it is not some
hierarchy, it is not the pastor.
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It is the Word of God. Amen.
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Now take your Bibles
and turn over here with me
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to Matthew 4:1-4,
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Matthew 4:1-4.
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"Then Jesus was
led up by the Spirit
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into the wilderness to
be tempted by the devil.
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When He had fasted
forty days and forty nights,
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afterward He was hungry.
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Now when the tempter
came to Him, he said,
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'If You are the Son of God,
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command that these
stones become bread.'
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But He answered and said,
'It is written, it is written,
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Man shall not
live by bread alone
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but by every word
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that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'
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" You can't get by
without food, drink, and water.
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And you're going to die.
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You're going to
shrivel up inside
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without the Word of God.
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There were three great
temptations for Christ.
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The first
temptation was a temptation
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to turn stones to
bread, to fill our bellies.
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He said, "It is written."
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The second one was
the call for a miracle,
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"Cast yourself down."
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Jesus said, "It is written."
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The third temptation
was the power and the glory.
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"I'll give you the
power of the world,
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I'll give you the
power of the church.
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I'll just give you power."
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Jesus said, "It is written."
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There's an answer
to every situation.
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The answer is, "It is
written," the Word of God.
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Now back to Martin Luther.
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This is a little aside.
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Before Martin
Luther and the Reformation,
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the world was in great
moral and spiritual darkness.
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Most people are
completely oblivious
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to the facts of history.
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Before Martin Luther,
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there was no
religious or political freedom.
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The Bible was
kept from the people.
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In fact, people
who read the Bible
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were burned at the
stake by the church.
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They were burned for the
crime of thinking differently.
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And I'm going to say something
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which is totally,
politically incorrect.
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And you can be
mad with me on or not.
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I am not a Republican,
and I'm not a Democrat
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because I do not want
people thinking for me
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and telling me what I should do.
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I am an independent.
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And you say, "No, no, no.
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The party! The party!"
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Listen, the party, the party,
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the party is going to
get people in the last days,
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the mark of the beast.
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The party, the party, the party!
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Think for yourself,
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don't be a slave to any man.
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You don't like that?
Well, there's more to come.
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Revelation
17:3-4, the apocalypse.
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Revelation 17, notice it.
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"So he carried me
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away in the Spirit
into the wilderness.
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And I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast
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which was full of
names of blasphemy,
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having seven
heads and ten horns.
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The woman," that's
the symbol of the church,
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"was arrayed in
purple and scarlet,
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and adorned with gold,
precious stones, pearls,
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having in her hand
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a golden cup
full of abominations
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and the filthiness
of her fornication."
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Listen,
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we live in an age
of tremendous ignorance
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in the church.
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In Bible prophecy,
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a woman is
symbolic of the church,
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a harlot is a harlot church.
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The pure woman
is the pure church.
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Now this is a picture of
the church in the dark ages,
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verses 5 and 6 of
the Revelation 17.
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"And on forehead a
name was written, mystery,
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Babylon the Great,
the mother of harlots,
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and of the
abominations of the earth.
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I saw the woman church,
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drunk with the
blood of the saints
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and with the blood
of the martyrs of Jesus.
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And when I saw her,
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I marveled with
great amazement."
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The church in the dark ages,
the so called Christian church,
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but it wasn't,
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put to death millions of people.
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The true church
of God never coerces.
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Jesus never forces the will.
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Jesus never comes
into your life and
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He never says,
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"You've got to do this
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or else I'm
going to kick you out."
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That's the voice
of the antichrist.
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So we believe in
freedom of speech
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and we believe in
freedom of religion.
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Luther and his
Reformation unleashed
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a tsunami of
freedom and prosperity.
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If we had not had the
Protestant Reformation,
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we would have
been in the blackness
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of the dark ages
with persecution.
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You didn't know
this? Study your history.
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Why do you think
America came into being?
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To change the analogy.
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Come to Isaiah 60:1-2,
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Isaiah 60:1-2.
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"Arise, shine. For
your light has come!
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And the glory of the
Lord is risen upon you.
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For behold, the
darkness shall cover the earth,
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and deep darkness the people.
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But the Lord
will arise over you,
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and His glory
will be seen upon you."
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The Bible says,
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"Light will bring
forth in darkness."
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It always does.
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And it did through the preaching
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of Martin Luther and others.
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Let me tell
you, folks, something
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whether you're a
Democrat or Republican
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or Calathumpian or independent
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or nothing.
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People today want what we have.
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Why is America inundated
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with these poor people?
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You know why they're coming?
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They're coming
because they want freedom.
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They're coming
because they want prosperity.
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Mothers are even sending
their children by themselves
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because they want them
to be free from the gangs.
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And I'm going to tell you
something that you'll never,
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never hear on television.
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These poor migrants are coming
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because they're
coming from lands
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that are still ruled by
the Church of the dark ages
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or the penny drops,
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they are coming from countries
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where they have no freedom
like they have in America
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or Australia or Great Britain.
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You better get
that into your minds.
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They're fleeing
oppression, crime, and poverty.
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Now come back to Luther
before the Diet of Worms.
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He was told,
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"You must give up your ideas
and submit to the majority.
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You must bow to the
voice of the church."
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People have told
me stuff like that.
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He says this.
This is what he said.
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"I cannot submit my faith
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either to the
pope or to the councils
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because it is as clear as day
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that they have frequently erred
and contradicted each other."
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That's the truth.
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"Unless I am convinced
by the words of the Bible
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or by clear reasoning,
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my conscience is
captive to the Word of God.
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I cannot and I will
not recant for it is unsafe
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to go against conscience.
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Here I stand, I can do no other.
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God help me. Amen."
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Oh, I wish we had
some Luthers today.
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I wish we had some
men of courage today.
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We seem to be breeding
a race of namby-pambies.
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So I asked the question,
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what is our ultimate authority
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in matters of conduct
and faith and doctrine?
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Who speaks for God?
That's the question.
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Every person today needs to
ask and answer that question.
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Is it the church?
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Is it tradition?
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Is it a bunch of
religious leaders
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gathered from around the world
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who think that somehow
they'd become infallible?
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Is it a hierarchy?
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You know, the
greatest temptations are found
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not in the world.
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Listen to this.
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The greatest temptations
are found not in the world
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but in the charge.
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The lust versus spiritual power.
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I tell you what are going to do.
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Why?
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Because I speak for God.
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There's my friend Dr.
Russell Owens in Texas
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used to say,
"That's phony baloney."
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The Word of God
speaks for the Word of God.
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We do not need in assessors.
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Is it tradition?
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"Oh, we believe it, for so long,
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we do it because we
do it, because we do it."
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Is it a hierarchy? No, no, no.
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Come over here to
2 Timothy 3:13-15,
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the words of Paul.
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2 Timothy 3:13,
00:16:03.29\00:16:05.49
"But evil men and impostors
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will grow worse and worse,
deceiving and being deceived.
00:16:09.80\00:16:13.84
And that from childhood
00:16:13.87\00:16:15.20
you've known
the Holy Scriptures,
00:16:15.24\00:16:17.37
which are able to make you
wise for salvation through faith
00:16:17.41\00:16:20.24
which is in Christ Jesus.
00:16:20.28\00:16:22.44
All Scripture is
given by inspiration of God
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and is profitable for doctrine,"
00:16:25.21\00:16:28.18
that's teaching, "for
reproof, for correction,
00:16:28.22\00:16:31.05
for instruction
in righteousness,
00:16:31.09\00:16:33.66
that the man of
God may be complete."
00:16:33.69\00:16:36.36
You don't need anything more.
00:16:36.39\00:16:38.16
"Thoroughly equipped
for every good work."
00:16:38.19\00:16:40.16
Amen.
00:16:40.20\00:16:42.56
That is our authority.
00:16:42.60\00:16:45.00
We have an infallible source
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of spiritual truths.
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It can make you
wise for salvation,
00:16:52.17\00:16:55.28
how much more do you want?
00:16:55.31\00:16:57.85
Wise for salvation.
00:16:57.88\00:17:00.18
Paul says, "It
will give you doctrine."
00:17:00.22\00:17:04.22
If your doctrines...
00:17:04.25\00:17:05.59
I want to say to
my Christian friends,
00:17:05.62\00:17:08.39
if your doctrines are
not based upon Scripture,
00:17:08.42\00:17:12.83
then you're being deceived.
00:17:12.86\00:17:15.76
Well, no.
00:17:15.80\00:17:19.53
All doctrine must be
based upon Scripture...
00:17:19.57\00:17:23.47
For reproof.
00:17:28.71\00:17:30.05
I need reproof? Yeah.
00:17:30.08\00:17:32.68
Don't you tell me I need it?
00:17:32.71\00:17:35.32
We all need reproof.
00:17:35.35\00:17:37.92
If I'm going in the wrong way,
I need a hand on my shoulder,
00:17:37.95\00:17:42.39
God's hand to turn me around,
00:17:42.42\00:17:45.23
reproof, correction,
00:17:45.26\00:17:49.23
that's because
we're such sinners.
00:17:49.26\00:17:50.80
"Oh, but I'm not a sinner."
00:17:50.83\00:17:52.17
Yes, you are. Ask your family.
00:17:52.20\00:17:54.57
You see, for correction,
instruction in righteousness.
00:17:54.60\00:18:00.48
And we discover
when we read Scripture
00:18:00.51\00:18:03.08
that righteousness
is not an attainment,
00:18:03.11\00:18:08.85
it is through atonement.
00:18:08.88\00:18:11.79
It says so that we
might be complete, mature
00:18:11.82\00:18:15.06
that we will stop being babies,
00:18:15.09\00:18:17.33
and we will grow up.
00:18:17.36\00:18:18.93
Lots of people
simply grow older,
00:18:18.96\00:18:21.73
but they never grow up.
00:18:21.76\00:18:24.07
The Bible says,
00:18:24.10\00:18:25.43
"If you're in the same old way
00:18:25.47\00:18:27.10
and you've been
doing it for years,
00:18:27.14\00:18:29.27
it's time to grow up."
00:18:29.30\00:18:31.97
And you grow through
the reading of Scripture
00:18:32.01\00:18:34.44
thoroughly
equipped for salvation.
00:18:34.48\00:18:38.11
In the dark
ages, this is history,
00:18:38.15\00:18:41.38
go and get your
computer and look up online
00:18:41.42\00:18:45.35
and study about the Inquisition
00:18:45.39\00:18:47.46
or go and read about
the Spanish Inquisition.
00:18:47.49\00:18:49.92
In the dark ages,
00:18:49.96\00:18:51.29
the Bible was rejected
by Roman church leaders,
00:18:51.33\00:18:55.26
who burned the
Bibles and heretics.
00:18:55.30\00:18:58.53
And most of the heretics
who were burned were earnest,
00:18:58.57\00:19:03.67
zealous, God
fearing Roman Catholics,
00:19:03.71\00:19:07.11
burnt by their own church.
00:19:07.14\00:19:09.94
Go and study the
Spanish Inquisition,
00:19:09.98\00:19:12.21
go online.
00:19:12.25\00:19:15.15
And many people in America
00:19:15.18\00:19:16.52
have completely
forgotten their glorious destiny
00:19:16.55\00:19:20.69
because they don't
know where they came from,
00:19:20.72\00:19:23.63
they have no idea of
the genius of America,
00:19:23.66\00:19:26.49
they have no idea about
00:19:26.53\00:19:29.80
the ideal of America.
00:19:29.83\00:19:33.37
Haven't got a clue,
00:19:33.40\00:19:35.64
what do they teach
kids in school I wonder.
00:19:35.67\00:19:40.31
I went in to have my...
00:19:40.34\00:19:42.54
I went in to
have my car service,
00:19:42.58\00:19:44.41
there's a pretty girl...
00:19:44.45\00:19:46.72
I was getting a
loaner car, you know?
00:19:46.75\00:19:49.05
She said, "What is your name?"
00:19:49.08\00:19:50.42
I said, "John
Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R."
00:19:50.45\00:19:55.62
Okay, because my
accents are little different.
00:19:55.66\00:19:57.69
You see, John
Carter, I spelled it out.
00:19:57.73\00:20:00.50
I said, "The
same as Jimmy Carter."
00:20:00.53\00:20:03.40
She said, "Does he have
his car service here too?"
00:20:03.43\00:20:06.20
So I guess if
you've never heard of
00:20:10.27\00:20:11.64
Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan,
00:20:11.67\00:20:14.34
then probably you've
never heard of the pilgrims.
00:20:14.38\00:20:19.58
Mm-hm.
00:20:19.61\00:20:22.58
We need to know
some of these things.
00:20:22.62\00:20:26.15
This is the truth.
00:20:26.19\00:20:27.69
That's why the
pilgrims came to America.
00:20:27.72\00:20:30.19
They came to America
00:20:30.23\00:20:31.83
because they wanted
to breathe free air.
00:20:31.86\00:20:35.53
They wanted the
right to worship God
00:20:35.56\00:20:37.63
according to the
dictates of their conscience.
00:20:37.67\00:20:40.37
They wanted a
state without a king
00:20:40.40\00:20:43.44
and a church without a pope.
00:20:43.47\00:20:47.41
That was the genius of America.
00:20:47.44\00:20:49.14
Many Americans
haven't got a clue today.
00:20:49.18\00:20:54.78
But they came here
because they wanted freedom.
00:20:54.82\00:20:59.69
We take our stand
with Martin Luther
00:20:59.72\00:21:01.89
and all the great reformers,
00:21:01.92\00:21:03.69
including that prolific writer
00:21:03.73\00:21:06.06
of the 19th and 20th centuries
00:21:06.09\00:21:08.86
Ellen White.
00:21:08.90\00:21:11.13
The Bible and the Bible alone.
00:21:11.17\00:21:13.87
Now come with me
to 2 Timothy 4:1-2.
00:21:13.90\00:21:17.24
These are the words
of that great preacher,
00:21:17.27\00:21:20.18
2 Timothy 4:1-2, Paul says,
00:21:20.21\00:21:23.71
"I charge you therefore
before God and the Lord Jesus,
00:21:23.75\00:21:26.85
who will judge the
living and the dead
00:21:26.88\00:21:28.38
at His
appearing and His kingdom.
00:21:28.42\00:21:31.39
Preach the word!
00:21:31.42\00:21:33.42
Be ready in
season and out of season.
00:21:33.46\00:21:36.16
Convince, rebuke, exhort,
00:21:36.19\00:21:37.93
with all
longsuffering and teaching."
00:21:37.96\00:21:40.43
So Paul says, "Preach the word!"
00:21:40.46\00:21:44.80
Because the word
is the authority.
00:21:44.83\00:21:48.84
And now notice verses
3, 4, and 5 of 2 Timothy.
00:21:48.87\00:21:52.84
Here it is.
00:21:52.87\00:21:54.21
"For the time will come
00:21:54.24\00:21:55.58
when they will not
endure sound doctrine,
00:21:55.61\00:21:58.68
but according to
their own desires,
00:21:58.71\00:22:00.98
because they have
itching ears," like donkeys.
00:22:01.02\00:22:05.59
They want their ears scratched.
00:22:05.62\00:22:07.96
Itching ears.
00:22:07.99\00:22:10.43
I've preached a
plenty of congregations
00:22:10.46\00:22:12.09
with itching ears.
00:22:12.13\00:22:13.46
"They will heap up
for themselves teachers,
00:22:13.50\00:22:16.77
and they will turn away
their ears from the truth,
00:22:16.80\00:22:21.20
and be turned aside to fables.
00:22:21.24\00:22:23.81
But you be
watchful in all things,
00:22:23.84\00:22:25.41
endure afflictions, do
the work of an evangelist,"
00:22:25.44\00:22:29.38
Whatever happened to
that, do the work of an...
00:22:29.41\00:22:32.68
But it doesn't work anymore.
"Do the work of an evangelist."
00:22:32.71\00:22:36.15
We don't do it. I can
tell you, church is dead.
00:22:36.18\00:22:39.65
Nobody going to your
church, it doesn't work.
00:22:39.69\00:22:42.89
"Do the work of an evangelist,
fulfill your ministry."
00:22:42.92\00:22:47.76
Now the greatest
of all the preacher,
00:22:47.80\00:22:49.63
said to this young
guy, "Preach the Word!"
00:22:49.66\00:22:53.67
And that's what we ought to do.
00:22:53.70\00:22:55.90
And who are these
creatures with the itching ears?
00:22:55.94\00:23:00.98
I've met heaps of them.
00:23:01.01\00:23:04.68
They want you to
tell them those things
00:23:04.71\00:23:06.98
that are going to
tickle their ears.
00:23:07.02\00:23:09.58
They're going to say to you,
00:23:09.62\00:23:10.95
"Oh, don't talk
about those things,
00:23:10.99\00:23:13.62
tell us that we can break
all of the commandments of God,
00:23:13.66\00:23:16.86
we can steal, and we
don't have to restore.
00:23:16.89\00:23:20.30
We can steal, and we
don't have to pay back.
00:23:20.33\00:23:24.07
Just scratch our ears."
00:23:24.10\00:23:26.94
The ear scratchers and
the ears that are scratched
00:23:26.97\00:23:30.14
are going to go
down to hell together.
00:23:30.17\00:23:34.04
Years ago, I was
running with my family,
00:23:34.08\00:23:36.64
and my team, bunch of volunteers
00:23:36.68\00:23:39.98
running here in
a Harare, Zimbabwe,
00:23:40.02\00:23:43.02
Salisbury, Rhodesia.
00:23:43.05\00:23:44.85
I got lots of opposition.
00:23:44.89\00:23:47.02
When you preach the Word,
you're going to get opposition.
00:23:47.06\00:23:50.16
If you're not
getting opposition,
00:23:50.19\00:23:52.49
it's because
you're not worth opposing.
00:23:52.53\00:23:56.20
Some preachers are like,
"I don't get any opposition."
00:23:56.23\00:23:58.30
Of course, you don't.
00:23:58.33\00:23:59.67
Why would
anybody wanted to oppose,
00:23:59.70\00:24:01.47
just leave you long
enough and you'll die anyhow.
00:24:01.50\00:24:04.87
So we were preaching the Word
and we got strong opposition.
00:24:04.91\00:24:08.68
I even got a
message from the pope,
00:24:08.71\00:24:10.61
personal message.
00:24:10.65\00:24:13.01
But one night,
00:24:13.05\00:24:15.92
the government sent
along representatives,
00:24:15.95\00:24:18.59
they'd been in the
audience every night,
00:24:18.62\00:24:22.26
they came along the
leader of the government,
00:24:22.29\00:24:24.39
and he said, "I need to
speak to this great audience
00:24:24.43\00:24:26.86
because people
want to shut you up,
00:24:26.90\00:24:30.63
they want us to deport you."
00:24:30.67\00:24:34.14
Then he came out and
he spoke to the people.
00:24:37.51\00:24:39.84
Beverley was there.
00:24:39.87\00:24:41.64
We had a great
choir from Solusi College,
00:24:41.68\00:24:44.05
"Come and sing the
African national anthem."
00:24:44.08\00:24:47.25
There was glory in the air.
00:24:47.28\00:24:50.25
Then this man came out
00:24:50.29\00:24:51.62
and stood in
front of me, he said,
00:24:51.65\00:24:52.99
"I've been listening
to you night after night,"
00:24:53.02\00:24:57.03
he said, "Pastor Carter."
00:24:57.06\00:24:58.39
Then he made the
sign of the cross
00:24:58.43\00:24:59.76
Anglican background.
00:24:59.79\00:25:01.13
"In the name of the Father
00:25:01.16\00:25:02.50
and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit,
00:25:02.53\00:25:05.73
preach the Word."
00:25:05.77\00:25:07.57
He said, "Preach the Word."
He said, "Preach the Word."
00:25:07.60\00:25:12.14
He said, "What
this country needs
00:25:12.17\00:25:15.31
that has been torn
apart by racism and terrorism,
00:25:15.34\00:25:21.28
it needs preachers who
got fire in their bellies,
00:25:21.32\00:25:25.95
and they will...
not little old grannies,
00:25:25.99\00:25:30.26
not babies, not cry baby."
00:25:30.29\00:25:34.76
He said, "We need preachers
00:25:34.80\00:25:36.67
who will preach
the Word from Genesis
00:25:36.70\00:25:41.54
right through to Revelation.
00:25:41.57\00:25:42.90
"Preach!
00:25:42.94\00:25:44.61
Preach the Word," he said.
00:25:44.64\00:25:47.94
Now we're talking about
00:25:47.98\00:25:51.68
who speaks for God?
00:25:51.71\00:25:54.62
Is it a church council?
00:25:54.65\00:25:57.45
Is it the hierarchy?
00:25:57.49\00:25:59.09
And I'll be back with
more in just a moment.
00:26:02.09\00:26:07.43
Stay with us.
00:26:07.46\00:26:09.16
Who speaks for God?
00:26:09.20\00:26:10.53
God has got a time and
a place for everything,
00:26:25.88\00:26:28.88
nothing happens by chance.
00:26:28.92\00:26:33.09
In spite of the
powers of darkness,
00:26:33.12\00:26:36.52
nothing can
destroy the church of God.
00:26:36.56\00:26:41.20
And I'm not ashamed
00:26:41.23\00:26:43.13
of the gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:26:43.16\00:26:48.77
That the gospel is
not about you and me,
00:26:48.80\00:26:51.41
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about the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:26:51.44\00:26:54.41
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